Thanks to Janette at Common Sense Runs Wild for tagging me to do this meme:
And my own addition is:Immediately following there is a list of 18? 19? 20?different occupations. You must select at least 5 of them (feel free to select more). You may add more if you like to your list before you pass it on (after you select 5 of the items as it was passed to you). Each one begins with "If I could be..." Of the 5 you selected, you are to finish each phrase with what you would do as a member of that profession. For example, if the selected occupation was "pirate" you might take the phrase "If I could be a pirate..." and add to it "I would sail the 7 Seas, dating lasses from around the worlde." See how easy that is?
Here's the list:
- If I could be a scientist...
- If I could be a farmer...
- If I could be a musician...
- If I could be a doctor...
- If I could be a painter...
- If I could be a gardener...
- If I could be a missionary...
- If I could be a chef...
- If I could be an architect...
- If I could be a linguist...
- If I could be a psychologist...
- If I could be a librarian...
- If I could be an athlete...
- If I could be a lawyer...
- If I could be an innkeeper...
- If I could be a professor...
- If I could be a writer...
- If I could be a llama-rider...
- If I could be a bonnie pirate...
- If I could be an astronaut...
(Janette added):
- If I could be a politician . . .
- If I could be a kid again . . .
- If I could be an animal . . .
- If I could be a tree . . .
- If I could be a celebrity . . .
- If I could be a character from a book or movie...
* If I could be a scientist... I'd create a small, mobile device that would, without any damage to the user's actual health, simulate various disabilities, like blindness, deafness, cognitive impairments, or paralysis. The user would then live with the chosen disability for, say, twenty-four hours.
* If I could be a doctor... I'd create treatment plans based on respect for the patient, designed to communicate that respect without adding significantly to the costs of care.
* If I could be a painter... I'd create paintings to represent a song, a caress, or the flavor of chocolate...
* If I could be a professor... I'd teach my students that the only thing needed to achieve a dream is the decision to pursue it.
* If I could be a writer... oh, yeah, I am a writer!
And thanks to Janette for this one:
* If I could be a kid again... I'd stay in touch with my friends. And I'd realize how skinny I was!
* If I could be a character from a book or a movie... I'd be a dragonrider from Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series. I don't care what color my dragon would be, but I want to fight Thread before it disappears forever!
I'm tagging Summer, Rae, and Imfunnytoo
3 comments:
Love the scientist answer. Someone should really work on that one. I think it would really change some attitudes. Although I do think people should have to wear it for more than 24 hours. In 24 hours they'd only see what it's like to "do without", if they had to wear it for a week they'd begin to see what some of the challenges are to adapt.
You're right, of course; my concern is that any threat of a sustained experience would mean no able bodied people would want to try it!
It would be challenging but I would like to think I'd be brave enough to try it. People would use the excuse of not being able to participate because of their jobs or their kids. That's just part of the package of life, they should learn to cope.
You know how they try to "educate" kids these days in puclic schools about "why Jonny has two daddies"? Your experiment would be much more useful and would hopefully have long term effects on how kids would view the physically challenged for the rest of their lives.
Anyway, it would be a very worthwhile experiment. Hopefully someday . . .
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